Discuss how preconception care contributes to a healthy pregnancy and positive pregnancy outcomes.
Preconception care is when women and couples get biomedical, behavioral, and social health interventions prior to conception. It attempts to improve their health by reducing the behaviors, as well as individual and environmental variables, that contribute to poor mother and child health.
Disease prevention and control opportunities exist at all phases of life; robust public health programs that take a life-course approach from infancy through childhood, adolescence, and adulthood are required. These efforts are aided by preconception care.
The preconception environment is crucial for the development of the baby. Impaired fetal and infant growth, poor birth outcomes, and long-term impacts on cardiovascular and metabolic illness can all result from poor maternal health and diet before and throughout pregnancy.
In healthy women, preconception care (PCC) entails taking charge of their lives and adopting healthy practices in order to improve pregnancy outcomes. With preconception care, babies are less likely to be born prematurely or with low birth weight and they have a higher chance of being born without birth abnormalities or other disabilities.
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